Amani Nuru-Jeter, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor
Community Health & Human Development
and Epidemiology
PHONE: (510) 643-1999
LOCATION: 287 University Hall
E-MAIL: anjeter@berkeley.edu
Courses
- Social Epidemiology
- Applied Public Health: Translating Research and Theory into Practice
Research Interests
- Race and socioeconomic inequalities in health; social disadvantage
- Socio-environmental context (e.g., place effects) and cross level interactions
- Race and stress (biology/context interactions)
- Racial disparities in birth outcomes and cardiovascular risk
- Measurement of racism
Research Description
Dr. Nuru-Jeter's broad research interest is to integrate social, demographic, and epidemiologic methods to examine racial inequalities in health as they exist across populations, across place, and over the life-course. Dr. Nuru-Jeter considers herself to be more "exposure" than "outcomes" focused, which is consistent with her interests in examining social factors such as "race" and "social class" as exposures that serve as the foundation for the creation and preservation of health disparities across a number of outcomes. She is interested in how these social exposures determine life experiences and opportunities differently for different social groups and how those differences become embodied and impact mental and physical health and well being.
Her current program of research consists of four inter-related areas of inquiry relevant to the study of racial health disparities: 1) the intersection of "race" and socioeconomic status and its effects on mental and physical health outcomes, 2) race and psychosocial and psycho-biological stress, 3) the measurement and study of racism as a key determinant of racial health disparities, and 4) socio-environmental context (i.e., place effects) and person-environment interactions. She is Co-Investigator of the Measures of Racism Study, a project based at the University of California, San Francisco, Center on Social Disparities in Health aimed at developing measures of racism relevant to African American childbearing women for use in birth outcomes disparities research. Her research has included work on doctor-patient race-concordance and patient satisfaction and utilization of health care services; the intersection of race, socioeconomic status, and gender on risk for psychological distress, disability outcomes, and adult mortality; and racial segregation and concentrated poverty as determinants of racial health inequalities. She has also done work examining racial and socioeconomic disparities in child health and development.
Publications
Fuller-Thompson E, Binbing Y, Nuru-Jeter A, Minkler M, Guralnik JM. Basic ADL Disability and Functional Limitation Rates among Older Americans from 2000-2005: The end of the decline? J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2009 (in press).
Fuller-Thomson E, Nuru-Jeter A, Minkler M, & Guralnik JM. Black-White Disparities in Disability among Older Americans: Further Untangling the Role of Race and Socioeconomic Status. J Aging and Health. 2009; 21(5): 677-698.
Nuru-Jeter A , Parker-Dominguez TP, Powell Hammond WP, Leu J, Skaff M, Egerter S, Jones CP, Braveman P. "It's the skin you're in": African American women talk about their experiences of racism. An exploratory study to develop measures of racism for birth outcome studies. Matern Child Health J. 2009. 13(1):29-39.
Nuru-Jeter A , Williams CT, LaVeist TA. A methodological note on modeling the effects of race: The case of psychological distress. Stress and Health . 2008. 24:337-50.
LaVeist TA, Nuru-Jeter A, Jones K. "The Association of Doctor-Patient Race Concordance with Health Services Utilization". Journal of Public Health Policy. 2004; 24(3,4): 312-323.
LaVeist TA and Nuru-Jeter A. "Is Doctor-Patient Race Concordance Associated with Greater Satisfaction with Care?" Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 2002; 43(3): 296-306.
Camper E, Nuru-Jeter A. "Impact of Technology on Health Education" In Allied Health Education: Practice Issues and Trends into the 21st Millennium, Eds. Lecca PJ, Valentine P, and Lyons K. Binghamton, NY; The Haworth Press, Inc. 2003.
Profile last updated: October 23, 2009